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Tactical move if he had gone with the course of action he chose and basically warned the iranians that if this happens again if you the shoot down another global hawk or do anything like that again we will actually strike you. this is your warning. if he had done that it would be a completely different issue. but given the fact that he he has revealed so much of his planning of his thinking, that really limits the option of surprise and his options diplomatically as well. >> general, i want to a...

Because, of course, thats how iran or any other country will look at things around their periphery. theyre going to see, you know, whats out there. theyre going to determine whether a drone or an aircraft is flying against its territory. you know, when you look at missile batteries, of course youre looking at the type of weapons system that was used to go after the global hawk that was shot down. so this would have been, you know, an attack that would be kind of proportionally going after the ty...

Unprovoked attack on an american drone? benjamin hall joins us live in studio as the white house prepares its response. >> reporter: important to remember that twice in the past donald trump has used tomahawk missiles for precision strikes in the middle east, this was going to be number 3. at the last minute it was put off. this decision to attack was made after the global hawk drone was shot down wednesday evening. donald trump then approved military strike against iran and it is reported the o...

Position and ready to strike with tomahawk missiles and just waiting the go orders. you heard the president explain his decision to stop the mission at the last minute, but there remains serious questions about what changed his mind. especially since there had been discussions earlier in the day that there likely would have been 150 casualties. heres what the president tweeted earlier today, quote: we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three different sights when i asked how many ...

Near the global hawk drone and shot this video of the drone being shot down. the faa issued a notice prohibiting u.s. commercial aircraft from flying over the persian gulf. theres been a steep drop in airline traffic. many international airlines said they would avoid the strait of hormuz. india has send two ships to ensure their ships would pass. were told the military is poised if a response is needed. theres still 70,000 troops in the region and an aircraft strike group. >> shepard: jennifer g...

Immediately s&p 500 at an all-time high. senator lindsey graham puts out this real top hawkish tweet right around 10:00, 10:20. dow jones industrial average, we start to see the slip, we were on the verge of losing the entire rally. >> sandra: dont forget, the president sent out a tweet that iran made a big mistake. >> if you look at the timing of those tweets, it was a hawkish nature of lindsey graham who was really good friends with president trump. the idea that you have to hit these thugs, t...

>> all right. jonathan. >> we saw the prime minister of canada and he seemed to be ebe telegraphing that he believed it was a mistake. he believed this was shot down in error, that it was not authorized by tehran, that it was a mistake, loose and stupid was the expression he used. this is something that the president wanted to avoid. boltons been a hawk on iran for decades. military strikes, he signed off on it. it was timed for dawn so it

This proves that -- some of the evidence that they have released proves that the global hawk drone, which flies at a very high altitude, flying over international waters. not over iran at the time. as hard for us to tell from the evidence that the u.s. military has presented, if, in fact, that was the case. you would want to know where the debris landed, and its hard to know the coordinates, but from what the u.s. military is saying, that drone was in international waters about 20 miles from the...

Things that they are putting in the information echo system right now that is going to muddy the waters. you cant talk to a global hawk. i mean, you cant send it signals if you are an enemy force. it might go into the system but it has to be translated to the -- the pilots on the ground if you will. and certainly a device like this would turn off its transponders if its collecting this kind of data. remember, erin, the other thing is this aircraft is flying between 30,050,000 feet. when it is sh...

And stupid, not following orders. so he seems to be trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. as you pointed out, we did not see an immediate military response. as you also pointed out, the u.s. could have intercepted those strikes before it hit our global hawk. >> theres something else to keep in mind. we have a tendency to look at everybody else as being homogeneous, particularly our enemies. its not homogeneous thinking over there in iran. i think theres at least some gulf between the thi...